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Author:

Jessup, Alexander, b. 1871, ed.

Title:

Representative modern short stories, edited by Alexander Jessup ...

Publisher:

The Macmillan Co.,

Copyright Date:

1929

Description:

xiii p., 1 ., 950 p. front. (facsim.) 24 cm.

Subject:

Short stories.

Notes:

"List of representative modern short stories": p. [859]-936.

Contents:

A struggle for life / Fitz-James O'Brien -- Wandering Willie's tale / Sir Walter Scott -- La grenadière / Honoré de Balzac -- The ambitious guest / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Venus of Ille / Prosper Mérimée -- The overcoat / Nicolai Vassilievitch Gogol -- The masque of the red death -- The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe -- Arria Marcella / Théophile Gautier -- The diamond lens / Fitz-James O'Brien -- A struggle for life /
Henry Cuyler Bunner -- The two churches of 'Quawket / Ivan Turgenev -- The madonna of the future / Henry James -- The last class / Alphonse Daudet -- The Sire de Malétroit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The star in the valley / Charles Egbert Craddock -- The lady, or the tiger? / Frank Richard Stockton -- The three strangers / Thomas Hardy -- Happiness / Guy de Maupassant -- The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling -- The two churches of 'Quawket / Henry Cuyler Bunner --
The last tenth / Margaret Prescott Montague. An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- A New England nun / Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman -- The red-headed league / A. Conan Doyle -- The procurator of Judea / Anatole France -- Désirée's baby / Kate Chopin -- Under the knife / Herbert George Wells -- Clavis / Annie Trumbull Slosson -- The man and the mountain / Bret Harte -- The little angel / Leonid Nikolaevich Andreyev -- Comrades / Maxim Gorky -- Spy rock / Henry van Dyke -- The darling / Anton Pavlovich Chekhov -- The furnished room / O. Henry -- The case of Mr. Helmer / Robert William Chambers -- The seed of McCoy / Jack London -- Afterward / Edith Wharton -- The great legend / Melville Davisson Post -- The knight's move / Katharine Fullerton Gerould -- The open window / Charles Caldwell Dobie -- Fear / Will Levington Comfort -- Fouled anchor / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- Marriage á la mode / Katherine Mansfield -- The last tenth / Margaret Prescott Montague.

LCCN:

29001675

Locations:

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)